karl's sig bug in evolution on hardy?

[Jay Daniels]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 22:56 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 13:45 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:32 +0200, Amedee @ Ubuntu wrote:
> > > On Wed, August 12, 2009 02:58, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I forgot, my procmailrc is inserting the correct "-- " for most post
> > > > that do not have the correct sig including Karl's post.
> > > 
> > > Care to share?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Amedee
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > # sig delimiter fixer thanks to Jeff Waugh again
> > :0 fBw
> > * ^--$
> > | $SED -e 's/^--$/-- /'
> > 
> > :0 fBw
> > * ^_______________________________________________$
> > | $SED -e 's/^_______________________________________________$/-- /'
> -- 
> Sorry to say this, but your fixer may as well break legal mails.
> Strings matching both regexs are legal in the body of a mail,
> -- 
> Above you see '\n--\n', please post in a text/plain attachment the results
> of your .procmailrc recipes on this mail.
> 
> Thanks
>   Siggy


More on this.  If I'm not mistaken.  The ^ means at beginning of line
and the $ is the end of line.  So, if you ment a message having a "-- "
somewhere else in the body of the message, then I do not think this is a
problem.  At least for the way Evolution cuts sigs anyway.


jay